ARF Conference draws 120 delegates from around world to address diplomatic crisis STEPANAKERT? A two-day Pan-Armenian conference in Stepanakert, organ...

Air tragedy with mostly Iranian and Armenian victims
A Russian-made Iranian airplane carrying 168 people crashed into a field on 15 July 2009, killing everyone aboard. Flaming wreckage, body parts and pe...

Armenian city lives in a school museum
By Daniel Bardsley NOR KHARBERD, ARMENIA // Safaryan Yepraksya is a mine of information about the province of Kharberd in what used to be Western Arme...

A decade’s work to clear the minefields
By Daniel Bardsley AMARAS, Armenia // In a picturesque mulberry orchard, two men pick up a white plastic frame and slowly walk forward through the lon...

Armenia diaspora comes home
By Daniel Bardsley YEREVAN // Charles Masraff does not mince his words when he describes what he wants to achieve in Armenia. The 59-year-old restaura...

Minister of Diaspora Hranush Hakobian receives Azad-Hye editor
On June 23, RA Minister of Diaspora Hranush Hakobian received Managing Director and Editor of Azad-Hye Armenian website (www.azad-hye.net) in ...

When the minority controls over the majority
Azad-Hye Special In the latest Lebanese parliamentary elections (07 June 2009) the Lebanese-Armenian community turned out in unprecedented numbers in ...

Syrian President Al-Asad visits Armenia
President of the Syrian Arab Republic Bashar Al-Asad arrived to Armenia for a two-day official visit (17 – 19 June 2009) At the invitation of th...

Come Home program starts this summer
Azad-Hye Special The Ministry of Diaspora will start this summer “Come Home” (Ari Doun / Ari Toun) program, with the aim of encoura...

Keeping Armenia alive in the capital of Sudan
“If Armenians are to be great then they have to pray,” says Father Gabriel Sargsyan. “As long as there is one Armenian left, there w...